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Show I rONIlY 'SEEMING TJOOD "WJCK. H 'Young Lieutenant's Fortunate 'Find tWLl Led to His Death. Xd Senator "Vest used to tell a story BV of good luck and hard -lucl: without Bj a counterpart. Ho says: "Ono day H while 1 wob a member 'Ot the Confed- flj crate Congress I lostJa month's pay J romewherc on the Streets of Ilich- BJ rnond Just as tlio woman In Scrip- BJ turo who lost a piece of Rllvcr called flj together hor friends nnd neighbors HJ and sought diligently until sho found J It, I called my friends and went with H them on what seemed n hopeless HJ search through the snow covered, H dimly llghtod streets of Illchmond. BJ Thu chances were a thousand to ono BJ ngalnst success. HJ "We hadn't been out fifteen mln- HJ utcs when n young lieutenant In our HJ party stooped down nnd picked up HJ my lost roll. I wns In high glco and HJ wanted to trout. Wo wero piloted to H n cafo which, pending so mo repairs, HJ had a ladder of about a dozen rungs flj Instead of stnlrs. We all climbed up, HJ considering it a great lark, nil tho Hj while talking nb'out what a lucky HJ fellow tho young lieutenant wns and HJ predicting great things for htm. As HJ we climbed down again tho young HJ lieutenant fell from tho ladder and HJ hroko his neck." Saturday Evening Post |